Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1590-1610 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, applied, underglazed,
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.20 centimetres (with spout) Height: 18.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ewer with underglaze blue ‘kraak’-type decoration. This finely potted ewer has a compressed six-lobed body and tapering neck. The mouth is shaped as a six-pointed star and the narrow spout is attached either side with applied relief branches. The base is recessed and glazed. The body is painted in underglaze blue with panels showing respectively: rocks, a servant carrying a large bowl in a garden setting, a cat in a landscape, a lady wearing a long-sleeved robe in a garden, rocks, ‘ruyi’ lappets and tassels. Around the neck is a squirrel climbing in a fruiting vine (see BM 1936.1012.238) and above a band of diaper and cash. The narrow spout is painted to resemble the trunk of a gnarled tree.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although the shape of this vessel is neither Chinese nor European, such ‘kraak’-type ewers were exported to Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries from China, as evidenced by their presence in the recovered cargoes of ship wrecks. A ewer of the same form, but with different underglaze blue decoration, was recovered from the San Diego, a Spanish warship, attacked by Dutch ships, which sank 1 km (just over half a mile) north-east of Fortune Island, in Nasugbu, Batangas Province, Luzon, Philippines, on 14 December 1600. The excavation of the wreck, between 1991 and 1993, brought up more than 34,000 archaeological items, including shards, more than 500 Wanli period blue-and-white ceramics, over 700 stoneware jars of Chinese, Thai, Burmese, Spanish or Mexican origin, fourteen bronze cannons, silver coins, animal bones, European muskets and navigational instruments.Several other ewers of this type survive in public collections, including an example in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, another in the Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunlight, and a third with the same form but different decoration in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, applied, underglazed,
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.20 centimetres (with spout) Height: 18.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ewer with underglaze blue ‘kraak’-type decoration. This finely potted ewer has a compressed six-lobed body and tapering neck. The mouth is shaped as a six-pointed star and the narrow spout is attached either side with applied relief branches. The base is recessed and glazed. The body is painted in underglaze blue with panels showing respectively: rocks, a servant carrying a large bowl in a garden setting, a cat in a landscape, a lady wearing a long-sleeved robe in a garden, rocks, ‘ruyi’ lappets and tassels. Around the neck is a squirrel climbing in a fruiting vine (see BM 1936.1012.238) and above a band of diaper and cash. The narrow spout is painted to resemble the trunk of a gnarled tree.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although the shape of this vessel is neither Chinese nor European, such ‘kraak’-type ewers were exported to Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries from China, as evidenced by their presence in the recovered cargoes of ship wrecks. A ewer of the same form, but with different underglaze blue decoration, was recovered from the San Diego, a Spanish warship, attacked by Dutch ships, which sank 1 km (just over half a mile) north-east of Fortune Island, in Nasugbu, Batangas Province, Luzon, Philippines, on 14 December 1600. The excavation of the wreck, between 1991 and 1993, brought up more than 34,000 archaeological items, including shards, more than 500 Wanli period blue-and-white ceramics, over 700 stoneware jars of Chinese, Thai, Burmese, Spanish or Mexican origin, fourteen bronze cannons, silver coins, animal bones, European muskets and navigational instruments.Several other ewers of this type survive in public collections, including an example in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, another in the Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunlight, and a third with the same form but different decoration in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden.
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